Show and tell: drawing
Jul. 3rd, 2020 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mafiefBiggest discovery? Measuring and lines!
The images I did before were without a grid. While they were fine, I wasn’t getting the exact proportions I wanted. That trick has been so helpful!
My first eye. Found another tutorial and followed it. Grids are awesome.
Also! Many who draw photorealistic drawings use a to scale print out of the portrait they are going to draw. Some even have an apparatus so they can trace the image and it draws on the other page. So I tried again on poor Peter Cushing, but with measurements! This time I’m much happier with the results. I am probably not going to go back and correct tones and add more details. The purpose was to see if it could be improved and look closer to the person.
Knowing that tip, I’m going back and re-evaluating the first image. I didn’t use perspectives, I didn’t use a grid, and I didn’t use measurements. It’s all eyeballed. Yah, it looks wonky, but it could have been way worse.
There is also a difference between a portrait and an illustration with tiny faces. Small faces is a lesson in minimal. I like adding detail in the larger portraits, but doing that in the small faces doesn’t work. I need to use the minimum amount of lines to convey an emotion or a different person. I need more practice here, but I’m getting better.
Face practice:
The first two rows I was in a funk and it wasn’t going my way.
The last row is me trying to draw Peter Cushing (sorry ghost of Cushing) at different angles and expressions and William Gillette. I
But I still want to do that because I can draw a scene.
Mightymads posted (https://victorian221b.dreamwidth.org/39215.html) an actor (Yury Solomin) who would make a great retirement Watson and I totally agree. I think he’s the perfect model where I can use as a model for my Watson. I’m also drawn to drawing (ha!) Cushing’s face. It’s angular, expressive, and has lots of lines (these are compliments, I swear), thus it’s interesting.
I found photos from Mightymads’ post and tumblr and used Powerpoint to stitch them together. Once together in roughly the same proportions, I used another program to add the grid. Using a grid is SO MUCH EASIER!
I've redrawn Watson's face at least four times. I removed the glasses because it made everything weird. Watson still has a little bit of crazy eye, but he’s concentrating on what Holmes is saying so maybe that’s fine. What was neat was when I was drawing the clothing, I noticed that the outfit they have Yury in is not tailored to him and rather baggy in spots. This skews some of the proportions...
I’m also realizing that this is about what I can do with the tools I have. I need sharper pencils. ;) I made my own kneed eraser (thank you internet DIY) and have random rulers, but the three pencils I have are student quality. It’s fine for right now, but there are somethings I struggle to do (erase dark lines, make very dark lines, colors, etc.).
The images I did before were without a grid. While they were fine, I wasn’t getting the exact proportions I wanted. That trick has been so helpful!
My first eye. Found another tutorial and followed it. Grids are awesome.
Also! Many who draw photorealistic drawings use a to scale print out of the portrait they are going to draw. Some even have an apparatus so they can trace the image and it draws on the other page. So I tried again on poor Peter Cushing, but with measurements! This time I’m much happier with the results. I am probably not going to go back and correct tones and add more details. The purpose was to see if it could be improved and look closer to the person.
Knowing that tip, I’m going back and re-evaluating the first image. I didn’t use perspectives, I didn’t use a grid, and I didn’t use measurements. It’s all eyeballed. Yah, it looks wonky, but it could have been way worse.
There is also a difference between a portrait and an illustration with tiny faces. Small faces is a lesson in minimal. I like adding detail in the larger portraits, but doing that in the small faces doesn’t work. I need to use the minimum amount of lines to convey an emotion or a different person. I need more practice here, but I’m getting better.
Face practice:
The first two rows I was in a funk and it wasn’t going my way.
The last row is me trying to draw Peter Cushing (sorry ghost of Cushing) at different angles and expressions and William Gillette. I
But I still want to do that because I can draw a scene.
Mightymads posted (https://victorian221b.dreamwidth.org/39215.html) an actor (Yury Solomin) who would make a great retirement Watson and I totally agree. I think he’s the perfect model where I can use as a model for my Watson. I’m also drawn to drawing (ha!) Cushing’s face. It’s angular, expressive, and has lots of lines (these are compliments, I swear), thus it’s interesting.
I found photos from Mightymads’ post and tumblr and used Powerpoint to stitch them together. Once together in roughly the same proportions, I used another program to add the grid. Using a grid is SO MUCH EASIER!
I've redrawn Watson's face at least four times. I removed the glasses because it made everything weird. Watson still has a little bit of crazy eye, but he’s concentrating on what Holmes is saying so maybe that’s fine. What was neat was when I was drawing the clothing, I noticed that the outfit they have Yury in is not tailored to him and rather baggy in spots. This skews some of the proportions...
I’m also realizing that this is about what I can do with the tools I have. I need sharper pencils. ;) I made my own kneed eraser (thank you internet DIY) and have random rulers, but the three pencils I have are student quality. It’s fine for right now, but there are somethings I struggle to do (erase dark lines, make very dark lines, colors, etc.).
